Post by Jules on Feb 14, 2022 17:04:57 GMT
Not going to do the song by song by song by song thing right now
There is also this annoyingly synced interview:
Underneath it, I found this interesting comment:
sundet81
1 year ago
Best album he ever made in my opinion. I remember it being scheduled for released in mid- to late 2000 before being delayed until the spring of 2001. Don't know why. It was a frustrating time, because review copies had apparently been sent out and good reviews were cropping up everywhere in the winter of 2000-01. But the record was impossible to get hold of, so surely the effect of those reviews must have dissipated. Then the album eventually came out (April or May 2001) and there was a single (Low Life) to go with it, which I remember being sold bundled with the album. Not sure what people made of the video, but in the summer of 2001 I remember thinking that the album would either drop like a lead balloon or he'd come up with something to promote it (i.e. a tour). Yet, nothing happened until August 2001, when For the Love of Cain was released as a single - only that it wasn't. Copies were available from his website (or a special Tomcats website if my memory serves me right) and I even got hold of one (long since lost it though), but it surely wasn't widely distributed. Then it appears there were plans to have a go at the American market and supposedly the album was to be released there on 11 September, and we all know how that went. Yet, when I see these events referred as the reason for the album's lead balloon drop (i.e. on Wikipedia), it only tells half the truth as the release and promotion of the album in the winter/spring of 2001 (in Europe at least) was turned into a pig's breakfast. So all in all I suppose the album was a major commercial failure, which must have been disheartening. Also, I think the rapproachment, as it were, of Curt and Roland happened at about the same time. Indeed, technically the first single off of Tomcats was Ticket to the World, released as a digital download in December 1999 under the Tears for Fears name. So I am guessing that the album was initially planned as a Tears for Fears album, but released under Orzabal's own name when he reconnected with Curt Smith. This may just also account for the strange delay in the album's release and perhaps even the half-hearted promotion campaign that went with it.
1 year ago
Best album he ever made in my opinion. I remember it being scheduled for released in mid- to late 2000 before being delayed until the spring of 2001. Don't know why. It was a frustrating time, because review copies had apparently been sent out and good reviews were cropping up everywhere in the winter of 2000-01. But the record was impossible to get hold of, so surely the effect of those reviews must have dissipated. Then the album eventually came out (April or May 2001) and there was a single (Low Life) to go with it, which I remember being sold bundled with the album. Not sure what people made of the video, but in the summer of 2001 I remember thinking that the album would either drop like a lead balloon or he'd come up with something to promote it (i.e. a tour). Yet, nothing happened until August 2001, when For the Love of Cain was released as a single - only that it wasn't. Copies were available from his website (or a special Tomcats website if my memory serves me right) and I even got hold of one (long since lost it though), but it surely wasn't widely distributed. Then it appears there were plans to have a go at the American market and supposedly the album was to be released there on 11 September, and we all know how that went. Yet, when I see these events referred as the reason for the album's lead balloon drop (i.e. on Wikipedia), it only tells half the truth as the release and promotion of the album in the winter/spring of 2001 (in Europe at least) was turned into a pig's breakfast. So all in all I suppose the album was a major commercial failure, which must have been disheartening. Also, I think the rapproachment, as it were, of Curt and Roland happened at about the same time. Indeed, technically the first single off of Tomcats was Ticket to the World, released as a digital download in December 1999 under the Tears for Fears name. So I am guessing that the album was initially planned as a Tears for Fears album, but released under Orzabal's own name when he reconnected with Curt Smith. This may just also account for the strange delay in the album's release and perhaps even the half-hearted promotion campaign that went with it.
